• FOCA A.G.M.
• Property Taxes
• Lake Partner Program
• Cottage Life Spring Show
•  . . and more

If you use a dock bubbler, you are encouraged to familiarize yourself with the rules and regulations for their safe use. For example, it is important to make sure that any area where there may be open water is clearly marked. See this article by the publisher of the Snowmobile Central Ontario Magazine. The Lake of Bays Association provides this note for informational purposes. Please contact your legal and/or insurance professional for advice. The Huntsville OPP (administrator) can be reached at (705) 789‑5551.  

Help keep Lake of Bays safe all year round.

                                       Barry Johnson, Chair, Safety Committee

Ice thickness and safety card from The Lifesaving Society

Not all brochures in the series are completed yet, but we are pleased with the results so far and hope you will be too!  Check out the brochures posted on the LOBA website by clicking on the links below…

RESTORE YOUR SHORELINE in Parry Sound – Muskoka

SPECIES AT RISK in Parry Sound – Muskoka

LIVING WITH BEAVERS on Private Land in Parry Sound – Muskoka

Still to come in the series is a brochure about trail development on private land. We will keep you informed of  its availability and we encourage you to check all of them out online. Maintaining and even enhancing the environmental health of our much loved Lake of Bays must start with understanding environmental sensitivities and how we can be good stewards of our watershed.  Not all of these brochures will resonate with everybody; not all of these brochures HAVE to resonate with everybody.  Check them out and find out what is relevant to you in terms of your property and what you cherish about life in the Lake of Bays area.

The 2010 Lake of Bays Water Quality Report prepared by Hutchinson Environmental Sciences Ltd is now available on the LOBA Website. The following is a brief summary of the results.

Total phosphorus concentrations collected by the Lake of Bays Association over the summer of 2010 were of high quality and indicated continued excellent water quality at all sampling sites in the Lake of Bays. The main results of the analyses from 2010 and from previous years are as follows:

1. Total phosphorus concentrations on Lake of Bays are characteristic of lakes with low primary productivity and meet the highest Provincial standards for protection from algae bloom development and were below applicable District Municipality of Muskoka thresholds for phosphorus;
2. The Grubb’s test provides a statistical means to identify extreme values that could influence the evaluation of trends in the data. Evaluation of outliers should be repeated each year.
3. Total phosphorus concentrations were highest in river sites compared to lake sites, as expected due to natural processes;
4. The previously described increasing trend in total phosphorus concentrations did not continue in 2009 and 2010, with values decreasing at nearshore sites and remaining stable at deepwater sites, which suggest that the 2002-2008 increase was due to natural variability.

View the full Report.

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. .  more about the greening of Dwight Beach   this past summer